Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.